A significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language,
including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals …

Ironic language is challenging for many people to understand, and particularly for children.
Comprehending irony is considered a major milestone in children's development, as it …

Successful peer relations in older children depend on proficiency with banter, which in turn
frequently involves verbal irony. Individual differences in successful irony interpretation have …

Irony is one of the linguistic means in which intended and expressed meaning diverge. It
serves social-communicative functions, requires the understanding of the speaker's mental …

Many studies in the psycholinguistics of irony with adult participants involve presenting them
with a series of specially prepared vignettes—short text stories describing a social situation …

Children's ability to understand irony is believed to be acquired late compared to other
pragmatic skills. To explore this assertion, this article presents a review of four decades of …

This study examined how self-reported sarcasm use is related to individual differences in
non-Western adults. A sample of 329 Turkish speakers of high socioeconomic status …

The last two decades have seen an increasing interest in pragmatic development–that is,
the acquisition of the cognitive abilities enabling the expression and recognition of …

Past research has highlighted some differences in how sarcasm is interpreted by different
groups of individuals as well as biases in individuals' expectations regarding who is more …

Mentalising has long been suggested to play an important role in irony interpretation. We
hypothesised that another important cognitive underpinning of irony interpretation is likely to …